It’s true that it’s within the realm of cultural politics that young people tend to work through political issues, which I think is good, although it’s not going to solve the problems.
ANGELA DAVISIt’s true that it’s within the realm of cultural politics that young people tend to work through political issues, which I think is good, although it’s not going to solve the problems.
More Angela Davis Quotes
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I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.
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No march, movement, or agenda that defines manhood in the narrowest terms and seeks to make women lesser partners in this quest for equality can be considered a positive step.
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We are never assured of justice without a fight.
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You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.
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It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals.
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It’s my body and I have the right to do whatever I want to do with it. So does every other female on this planet.
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I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.
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We should seek out all the doors which still remain ajar, however slight the opening might be.
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Prison relieves us of the responsibility of seriously engaging with the problems of our society, especially those produced by racism and, increasingly, global capitalism.
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The only weapons that make me dangerous are my mind, mouth and pride, which will surely educate you.
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As a black woman, my politics and political affiliation are bound up with and flow from participation in my people’s struggle for liberation, and with the fight of oppressed people all over the world against American imperialism.
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You can’t criticize people for wanting to have a decent life or wanting to live decently.
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Human beings cannot be willed and molded into non-existence.
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Discrimination based on skin color, sexual orientation,& gender needs to stop. We’re all humans at the end of the day.
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If they come for me in the morning, they will come for you in the night.
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